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I have this friend who finds the number 19 everywhere--the number of occurrences is just baffling. I don't know what to make of it.

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". . . We realised we had been myopically shortsighted to think this thing was just an adding machine. . . . So we began to develop it as a super typewriter. With a long and increasingly incomprehensible feature list. Users of Microsoft Word will know what I'm talking about."

Great! And I won't spoil it by being #43, not that you would mind, but I categorically refuse to participate in Facebook. I could site reasons relating to privacy, big brother, accusations of evil doings, and whatnot; or you could simply conclude that I am old, un-hip, anti-social and anti-system. Either one works.

I will, however, try to get to reading your book soon.

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"That really is truly amazing. That is so amazingly amazing I think I'd like to steal it." - Zaphod Beeblebrox

@Lewot- the number 19, eh? I wonder what that means. I wonder if there's a symbolic significance. But that's usually 3 or 13.

@Kilman- you old fogie! I resisted FB for a long time, then my oldest daughter moved out and it became the main way to find out about her life. Now that's how I keep in touch with my step daughters too. I don't text and they don't call, so this has worked just peachy-swell.

@VogonGirl - 42 does come up a lot in math. I think the mathbook people are big DNA fans. My twins and I notice it a lot.

It is now 42 days from December. How I came upon knowing this is by doing a hard math problem that had to do with the time of the year, the answer was 42 and so I counted (just for fun) how many days till December and there it was 42 as plan as blue.